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. 2019 May 2;8:69. doi: 10.1186/s13756-019-0525-3

Table 4.

Univariate and multivariate analysis of risk factors for treatment failure in organ-space SSI-CRAN

Univariate and multivariate analysis of risk factors for developing SSI-CRAN
UNIVARIATE MULTIVARIATE
Non SSI-CRAN (n = 504) SSI-CRAN (n = 91) p-value OR 95% CI p-value
Male, n (%) 232 (46) 42 (46.2) 1 0.86 0.52–1.43 0.57
Mean age, years (SD) 53.1 (14.3) 51.4 (15.3) 0.26 0.99 0.97–1.01 0.33
  > 65 years (%) 129 (25.6) 19 (20.9) 0.36
Urgent surgery, n (%) 66 (13.1) 13 (14.3) 0.74
Reason for surgery:
Intrinsic tumour, n (%) 203 (40.3) 31 (34.1) 0.29
Extrinsic tumour, n (%) 97 (19.2) 26 (28.6) 0.05 1.71 0.91–3.24 0.09
Epilepsy, n (%) 23 (4.6) 0 (0) 0.03 0 0 0.99
Vascular, n (%) 130 (25.8) 22 (24.2) 0.79
Trauma, n (%) 14 (2.8) 3 (3.3) 0.73
Others, n (%) 37 (7.3) 9 (9.9) 0.39
Surgical site:
Supratentorial, n (%) 386 (76.6) 63 (69.2) 0.15
Infratentorial, n (%) 49 (9.7) 13 (14.3) 0.19
Retromastoid, n (%) 69 (13.7) 15 (27.5) 0.51
Duration of surgery, minutes (SD) 255.2 (99.6) 265.9 (111.4) 0.65
  > P75a, n (%) 124 (24.6) 28 (30.8) 0.57
Mean hospital stay, median (range) 7 (5–13) 7 (5–31) 0.59
CHARLSON, mean (SD) 3.14 (2.3) 3.03 (2.2) 0.70 0.90 0.78–1.05 0.20
  < 3, n (%) 245 (48.6) 47 (51.6) 0.65
3–5, n (%) 184 (36.5) 30 (33) 0.55
6–8, n (%) 56 (11.1) 13 (14.3) 0.38
  > 9, n (%) 19 (3.8) 1 (1.1) 0.34
ASAb, mean (SD) 2.3 (0.7) 2.4 (0.8) 0.08
ASA > 2, n (%) 179 (35.5) 44 (48.4) 0.025 2.26 1.32–3.87 0.003
NNISc, mean (SD) 0.9 (0.7) 1 (0.7) 0.24
NNIS I-II, n (%) 372 (73.8) 69 (75.8) 0.79
Antibiotic prophylaxis:
Appropriate, n (%) 432 (85.7) 80 (87.9) 0.74
Inappropriate, n (%) 59 (11.7) 11 (12.1) 0.86
Non registered, n (%) 13 (2.6) 0 (0) 0.23
Metal plates, n (%) 465 (92.3) 78 (85.7) 0.06 1.8 0.84–3.87 0.13
Use of steroids/chemotherapy, n (%) 369 (73.2) 70 (76.9) 0.52
Re-intervention, n (%) 97 (19.2) 61 (67) < 0.001 8.93 5.33–14.96 < 0.001
ICPd sensor, n (%) 30 (6) 6 (6.6) 0.81
CSFe leak, n (%) 7 (1.4) 4 (4.4) 0.72 0.85 0.21–3.44 0.82
Mortality 30d post surgery, n (%) 31 (6.2) 2 (2.2) 0.21

a > 75 percentile of duration of surgery

bAmerican Society of Anaesthesiologists

cNational Nosocomial Infection Surveillance System

dIntracranial pressure

eCerebrospinal fluid